Description: "This volume examines the multiple meanings of the term community in relation to teacher education research from an international perspective and present examples of exemplary work that represent different strands of community-focused and community-based teacher education. As well as laying out and clarifying the landscape of existing work on including communities in teacher education, Ken Zeichner argues for a view of teacher education in which existing power hierarchies are disrupted and in which parents/carers, families and local communities play central roles in the preparation of teachers and teacher educators. He also argues for a vision of teaching that includes instruction, curriculum development, and community participation. He explores the links between equity and justice in education in schools in marginalized communities and shows how decolonial approaches to teacher education that access community expertise can help shift power relations resulting in culturally sustaining and revitalizing forms of education." --Publisher's website
Brief description: Kenneth M. Zeichner is Boeing Professor of Teacher Education Emeritus at the University of Washington, USA.
Review Quotes:
"Communities is nothing short of visionary. Grounded in Ken Zeichner's lifetime of work as a teacher and teacher educator, Communities reframes whose knowledge matters in teacher education. Readable and comprehensive, loaded with possibilities and examples, and full of wisdom, this is essential reading for teacher educators." --Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, California State University Monterey Bay, USA
"Teacher educators endeavoring to clarify, center, reimagine, elevate, and amplify communities as essential partners in educators' learning and development will find treasures throughout this book. A powerful resource for educators pre- and in-service, Zeichner has birthed a text that will help us co-construct with communities policies and practices to transform the face and structure of the work of teacher education." --H. Richard Milner IV, author, 'The Race Card: Leading the Fight for Truth in America's Schools' (2023) "Ken Zeichner draws on his great experience of teacher education in the US and internationally to offer a powerful analysis of how disadvantaged communities are frequently poorly served by teacher education programs. However he also describes numerous initiatives that have been undertaken in a range of settings which were designed to engage and connect with such communities on equal terms in order to prepare teachers who can contribute fully to the education provided in these communities' schools. The book thus provides inspiration for teacher educators but is likely also to be of great interest to teacher candidates, setting out on their journeys into the profession." --Ian Menter, Emeritus Professor of Teacher Education, University of Oxford, UK "This proposed reconceptualising of teacher education disrupts existing power hierarchies and places those who are marginalized as central in the preparation of teachers and teacher educators." --Maria Campbell, Director of Graduate Programmes, College of National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland